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Dan Levitt spent over 25 years writing, producing, and directing award-winning documentaries for National Geographic, Discover, Science, PBS, among others. His film topics included how Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and Hawking made their greatest discoveries, the archeology of Custer’s Last Stand, and the scientific search for alien life. Dan began his career as a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching high school physics and biology in Kenya. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, two children, and their dog, Maxwell Smart.

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“Rubisco is a silly enzyme,52 a bad enzyme. Why nature invented it, I have no clue,” the biochemist Govindjee said. “God must have been looking the wrong way.”
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“The first animals arose in our oxygenated ocean hundreds of millions of years before plants evolved on the continents.”
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“magnetic iron crystals in birds’ brains that help them navigate,”
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